Botha and Lugard: The
Beauty of an EnemyBy: Ehimwenma E. Aimiuwu
2006

Many of us love our friends
and family members because they give us a sense of comfort and support, but
despise the enemy.Has it ever occurred to you why Jesus
said that we should pray for our enemies or why in the Godfather movies, the
Godfather instructed that we should always bring our enemies closer than our
friends?It took me a while to figure this out, and I
believe it is because our perceived enemies are truly our best friends.We only have to learn to listen to the unseen and make changes of
improvement.Your enemies truly do not want the best for you
and will do whatever it takes to make you feel bad or eliminate you.Your enemies tell you the naked and bitter truth to your face, and even
go as far as making false realities true against you.It all
depends on how you react.If you believe your enemy and
conform, then your enemy is respectably truthful, but if you upgrade yourself
for the better, then your enemy is a friend that owes you respect.

There are two African enemies
that colonized two very different parts of
Africa, and about sixty years apart.The colonizers made statements from two different perspectives, but
agreed on some points.One wrote from the view of genuine
observation while the other wrote from a hate perspective.
The former was Lord Lugard, who was the Governor-General of Nigeria in the early
1900s and the later is P.W. Botha, who was the symbol of Apartheid in South
African during the 1980s.

In a page of a book written
by Lugard in 1926, which (the summary) can be found on
http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub175.htm,
he describes the African as a group that lacks
discipline, self-control, foresight, full of personal vanity, and lacks sense of
truth.He claims that the African live for the
moment, is animalistic in mind compared to other races of people, have no
organized religion and have vague dread for the supernatural.He also suggests that the African lacks organizational and
managerial skills for people and business, loves power and is unaware of its
responsibilities, and enjoys working harder for less compared to other races.He then concludes by saying that the African has great
courage in fighting but not for moral virtues, and he is stupidly loyal to a
superior.

Now we will look at what
Botha said to his governing members in 1985 without any link to either Lugard or
Nigeria.This can be found on
http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub174.htm.
Botha justifies racism as a thing the civilize
world does through means of murder, labeling, and passing of laws against
inferior beings.Botha claims that the African
should be a raw material for the advancement of Europeans because the African is
not only a symbol of poverty, but is also lazy, mentally inferior, and is
emotionally incompetent.He
emphasizes that the African’s lack of moral and foresight for the
future make it easy to induce him with money to turn against his very own.He also adds that North America and
Europe are strong supporters of Apartheid, and
it is a necessity to prevent the African from leadership and populating through
chemical poisoning in health centers, food, and soft drink channels.

A good analysis of these
colonizers, points out that they both agree that the African is mentally
inferior, lacks moral and foresight, lacks leadership, organizational, and
managerial abilities, and are therefore, worthless and should be set aside from
any form of respectable role.What I would like to know is
if the above conclusion is true.If it is, are Africans
naturally like that or is it a
post slavery and colonial effect?I will like to believe the later, after all, how did we create thriving
empires like
Egypt,
Nubia,
Cush (Ethiopia/Sudan),
Benin (Nigeria),
Mali, and
Ghana?
The fact is that as an American that was raised in Nigeria and of proud Nigerian
descent, I did notice that most Nigerians do not tell themselves the truth, they
do lack moral and foresight, they are full of personal vanity, they love power
but neglect its responsibilities, and indeed follow superiors stupidly, which in
turn affects the overall leadership and managerial abilities that leads to
increased productivity negatively.

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Most Nigerians know the right way forward with all their intelligence, degrees,
and international exposure, but they will always elect an old corrupt general
from the past or the uneducated descendant of a chief or failed politician to
office before they elect an obviously educated and disciplined man or woman.They know that no infrastructure will be built nor will jobs be created,
but they elect these leaders or rig the elections along tribal or party lines,
so that stolen wealth can trickle down the family or lingual path to a selected
few instead of creating a system of vision for all to prosper.Their loyalty to political names, purchased chieftaincy titles with
stolen wealth, and wealthy individuals without a livelihood, has given way to
the rise of corruption and disregard for education, production, and creativity.Many no longer want a system of vision that brings forth profit and
progress for all, because they know that the presence of a disciplined good
leader means falling to the bottom of the social status overnight.This is because many do not or no longer have the education, skill,
ability, training, technical-know-how, and understanding of how to maintain or
multiply their ill gotten wealth.All they have is hidden
paper money in foreign account without a single business created for their
country or an investment in an infrastructure to advance their country.

It is very easy to conclude
that it is only in the continent of
Africa that this madness takes place among
peoples of African descent, but Tavis Smiley’s think tank program, which can be
found on
http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub176.htm
disagrees with that line of thinking.His observation shows
that the African American have now being stagnant economically for
about 150 years even after the abolition of slavery and the civil rights
movement. It also shows that during the entire and the same
period, about 98% of African Americans still work for White America, and despite
all our millionaires in the sports and entertainment industries, we still
account for half of one percent of the total wealth of America during the same
period.So, not only has poverty increased among
Africans in the most developed and most technological advanced country in the
world, but Africans are also not producing enough to compete and employ others.It shows that we spend more that we make, and that we are not spending
within our available businesses to increase their ability to produce more and to
employ more.

So racism is not based on
skin color, but it is based on the attitude towards productivity.Africans are not looked down upon because they are dark skinned, but it
is their skin that makes it easy for them to be classified.
So the lesson here is to either agree with your enemy by continuing the culture
of allowing bad leaders to rule for selfish reasons and not fighting to install
good ones, or become aggressively productive.This can be
accomplished by making and enforcing good laws that encourage the most
disciplined and educated candidates with foresight, moral, and international
exposure to seek office.This is the foundation of progress
and productivity.It in turn yields to study to set one’s
self approved.This is the study of finance, economics,
business, government, law, and civics.It also includes the
multiplication of wealth and employment, and not just love, romance, sports,
fashion, and entertainment journals. This will make us produce products,
services, and employees, it will give us the genuine platform to compete, and
circulate our monies within the numerous services we now provide.This is the only way to eliminate racism by 2100.It
can be done.